Sentences with phrase «of policy justification»

But Chad Alderman, a policy analyst at the consulting firm Bellwether Education Partners, argued the federal government was always clear about the possibility of getting a higher education board to sign off on alternative standards — even if that took no more than a letter of support without much in the way of policy justification.

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With unemployment falling steadily through the year, there has been less justification for crisis - era policy, and a sense among policymakers that they could balance the higher rates sought by «hawks» with a slow pace of subsequent increases.

From the inception of the inflation - targeting regime, the press releases have made explicit reference to the inflation target as the primary justification for the monetary policy decision.

Layton was responding to criticism from Jack Mintz — the economist oft - quoted by Conservative Leader Stephen Harper as justification for his tax policies — that the cap - and - trade system the NDP proposed to cover the cost of $ 3.5 billion worth of green initiatives in the first year would raise gasoline prices by 10 cents per litre.

I believe pet in cabin policies should be more liberal than they are currently, and that cost and restrictiveness have led to the explosion of using the claim of emotional support as a justification to avoid those rules.

Seriously though, you're basing everything off a proposition with no evidence, and the rest of us are kind of astounded that it's still viewed as sufficient justification for policy, especially policies of persecution

For better or worse, the elaborate investigation of, for instance, the connections between St. Paul's teaching on justification and the criminal justice system will be totally inaccessible» and, if accessible, implausible» to anyone within hailing distance of policy discussions about crime and punishment.

Many evangelicals and fundamentalists have sought uncritically to impose revealed norms of religious righteousness on the secular society with little if any justification insofar as how such policies would affect nonbelievers.

The modern pluralistic religious ethos has provided materials for a quantum leap in ideological justifications, and has made the task of honest discernment of social policy more difficult and all the more necessary at all levels of the church.

If so, that would mke the terrorist the victoms of our foreign policy, and offer a justification for their style of fighting.

The judge wrote: «There is another justification for the policy of excluding homosexuals from service in the United States Armed Forces... [F] ar and away the highest risk category for those who are HIV - positive, a population who will with a high degree of medical certainty one day contract AIDS, is homosexual men.»

Was this author equally appalled about the prayer breakfast earlier this month, when President Obama tried to use biblical phrases like «for unto whom much is given, much shall be required» and «love thy neighbor as thyself» out of context as justification for his tax and economic policies?

As anyone who studies the history of Christian thought knows, what is theologically controversial and needs clear justification is the liberal view that we should adopt a religiously neutral approach to public policy, including immigration and refugee policy.

There is no legal, moral, financial or administrative justification for this policy against which he, Pensions Minister Webb, tabled an Early Day Motion (when in opposition) calling for the abolition of the iniquitous discriminatory Regulation Three.

I know of no realist work interested in post hoc political justifications for foreign policy actions.

Neglecting these «output» and «input» aspects of legitimacy and giving priority instead to a euronationalist justification of a European sovereignty in the making could also turn out to be detrimental to individual freedoms: the illusion of homogeneity it would produce could incite European citizens to support policies sold by political leaders as being in the interest of the European «community» or «people», but actually only serving a tiny minority.

Third, OHS violated the substantive requirements of the APA by proffering a legally insufficient justification for rescinding DACA, obscuring the true policy rationale for this substantial change, and otherwise violating independent constitutional and statutory provisions.

Devaluing when Labour had first come into office could — with good justification — have been laid at the door of the policies of the outgoing Tory government.

This creates the political justification for sharpened rhetoric on equality, while the policy rationale is contained in counteracting the tendencies to inequality involved with both globalisation and technological change, the great drivers of economic transformation in our times.

As far as communication in climate policy is concerned, the study's results suggest that in future a comprehensive mix of information on climate change and various justifications for climate protection will be necessary.

«Above all, we wanted to know whether it is better to provide economic justifications, such as the positive effects of climate policy on technological innovation and the labour market, and personal aspects like protection of our health, rather than to focus on conveying scientific facts and the risks of climate change.»

Bob Carter, one of four scientists who has recently questioned the justification for the proposed Australian emissions trading scheme, says that this paper has significant consequences for public climate policy.

Not only is this in direct contradiction to explicit policies set up other institutions (like University of Washington) but as discussed elsewhere, there seems no basis for this decision in FLSA, and at the time of writing responses to requests for the legal justification of this have not been received.

A stated desire to increase the amount of time students spend in school should be compelling enough justification for a waiver from this misguided policy.

The other is that the language of state constitutions is unclear and, therefore, provides no justification for regulating the elected branches» policies.

A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit ruled 2 - 1 that there was no legal justification for the Boston district's policy of considering race for roughly half the admission slots...

Unpacking any one of these provides strong justification for quality music education, yet the one that has received the most attention in media, policy and research spheres, is engagement in learning (Schellenberg & Winner, 2011).

I came with the goal to either reaffirm my belief that education policy could change intrinsic motivations of societies, or accept the justification for it being impossible.

As a matter of public policy, however, the public's willingness to endorse online education very much depends on the justification given for it (see Figure 5).

The only justification for the pervasive policy of trying to increase test scores is that future national economic success will go to the nations with the highest scores.

Good headteachers might well retort here, with justification of course, that they are very important in any school: they set behaviour policies, they shape the curriculum and all the learning around it, they oversee the budget, they recruit good teachers.

Josh Marwell, president of sales at HarperCollins just posted an entry offering his company's justification for its new policy on the amusingly - named Library Love Festblog.

In the study cited above showing that adoption agencies frequently misidentify canine breeds, the authors conclude, «The discrepancies between opinions of adoption agencies and identification by DNA analysis suggest that it would be worthwhile to reevaluate the reliability of breed identification as well as the justification of current public and private policies pertaining to specific dog breeds.»

Review existing policies and data on dog shootings and institute administrative review of all such shootings that includes an evaluation of their justification

Their perspectives are edited and reconstructed according to the established priorities of the dominant political class, such that their presence is ultimately represented as justification of policies that actively exclude others like them.

Indeed, the IPCC has vigorously fulfilled its duties of providing apparent justifications for political policies.

One of the most important facts you deny is that, without evidence that GHG emissions will do more harm than good there is no justification for mitigation policies.

For the obvious reason that the IPCC provided exact justification for the policy it wanted to follow: suppression of CO2 production as a control mechanism for the entire economy.

That the policies in question were / are of monumental import REDUCES the justification for manufacturing the appearance of consensus, not increases it.

To equate climate models with «bad» science must be understood to be an attempt to undermine any scientific justification for climate change policies because models are needed to make predictions about the future states of complex systems.

Frankly, that strikes me as demonstrating ignorance of how rational policy analysis and justification for policies and expenditure is done.

Of course, leftists will always find another «justification» for their immoral policies, and that too will have to be resisted, but I will leave that for my children.....

Because climate change is a profound problem of ethics, morality and justice those causing the problem may not use self - interest alone as justification for their policy responses to human - induced warming, they must respond in ways consistent with their responsibilities and duties to others.

The paper urges caution in using economic losses of tropical cyclones as justification for action on energy policies when far more potentially effective options are available.

Because climate change is a profound problem of justice those causing the problem may not use self - interest alone as justification for their policy responses to human - induced warming, they must respond in ways consistent with their responsibilities and duties to others.

Because of the prevalence of cost - benefit justifications for climate change policies, future IPCC reports could make a contribution by identifying all of the ethical issues raised by cost - benefit analyses.

This Pollyanna view of fossil fuel alternatives and efficiency, which makes going green seem cheap and easy — little more than the cost of «a postage stamp a day» — has provided the justification for green - policy advocacy that has overwhelmingly focused on pollution regulations and carbon pricing while ignoring serious investment in energy research and development.

Also several sections of Chapter 3 that can be interpreted as claims that policy makers are free to choose economic reasoning as justification for climate policies.

The insight that nations will not agree to what equity requires of them because it is not in their national interest should not be the basis for abandoning an equitable approach to climate change as recommended by the above referenced World Bank paper because national interest is not a morally acceptable justification for national climate change policy yet it is likely to remain the criteria for setting national climate change policy unless a nation is shamed for its ethically bankrupt position on climate change.

Energy and Environment: Repudiate the Paris Climate Agreement Defund the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Overturn or at Least Defund the EPA's Clean Power Plan Repeal the EPA's Purloined Power to Legislate Climate Policy Repeal the EPA's Carbon Dioxide Standards for New Fossil - Fuel Power Plants Oppose Carbon Taxes Prohibit Use of Social Cost of Carbon as a Justification for Regulating Emissions Freeze and Sunset the Renewable Fuel Standard Require all Agencies to Meet Rigorous Scientific Standards Address Unaccountable Environmental Research Programs